Medical Imaging

Physicians utilize medical imaging to see inside the body to diagnose and treat patients. This includes computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, angiography,  and the nuclear imaging modalities of PET and SPECT. 

Emageon prices initial public offering

Emageon Inc. announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 5,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $13 a share. All of the shares are being sold by Emageon.

HP introduces storage and digital pen and paper technology

HP this week revealed new technology for the healthcare industry: the new Medical Archiving Solution and the HP Forms Automation System (FAS) 1.2.

Cerner maintains momentum in 4Q FY04

Cerner Corp. this week announced results for the fourth quarter FY04 ending January 1.

FDA clears McKesson PACS mammo station

McKesson this week received FDA clearance for its Horizon Rad Station release 11.0 PACS workstation for reading, distributing and storing full field digital mammography (FFDM) images.

NCD, EDCO partner

National Consulting and Development Corp. (NCD) has partnered with EDCO - The Document People Inc. of Springfield, Miss. to offer EDCO x-ray film and record storage services (SecureStore) and enable EDCO to offer NCD's image/data hosting services (e-WIX).

Study: CT procedures increase 10% in 2003

CT procedures performed at more than 7,350 sites in 2003 increased 10 percent to 50.1 million, compared with 45.4 million procedures in 2002, according to IMV Medical Information Division's recent census of CT sites in the U.S.

Symbol introduces new wireless switch

Symbol Technologies Inc. launched its new high-capacity WS5100 enterprise wireless switch for large, campus-wide enterprise Wi-Fi deployments.

Philips extends functionality of SpeechMagic for increased reporting workflow

Philips Medical Systems has enhanced its speech recognition technology, SpeechMagic, which is installed in more than 7,000 sites worldwide.

Around the web

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer. 

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